Special Issue "Chiral Pollutants: Environmental Impact and Detection"-Victor Borovkov

1. College of Chem. and Materials Science, South-Central University for Nationalities, 182# Minzu RD, Hongshan District, Wuhan, Hubei province, 430074, China

2. Senior Research Scientist, Dept. of Chem. and Biotechnology, School of Science, Tallinn University of Technology, Akadeemia tee 15, 12618 Tallinn, Estonia

Interests: sensors; induced chirality; chirality transfer; supramolecular chirality; chiral chromophores; circular dichroism; chiral materials and surfaces

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Department of Chemistry and Biotechnology, School of Science, Tallinn University of Technology, Akadeemia tee 15, 12618 Tallinn, Estonia

Interests: chiral compounds; synthesis of macrocycles; host-guest chemistry; chirality induction; cucurbiturils

Prof. Roberto Paolesse Websites

Guest Editor

Dept. of Chemical Science and Technologies University of Rome Tor Vergata via della Ricerca Scientifica 1 00133 Rome, Italy

Interests: chemical sensors; porphyrins; corroles; sensor arrays; supramolecular chemistry; nanostructured materials; thin films

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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

A chiral species is a single molecule or molecular assembly that cannot be superimposed with its mirror image. Chiral molecules are consequently present as two stereoisomers, called enantiomers, and, importantly, they are the main building blocks of living organism. On a daily basis, chiral molecules are conventionally used and produced by pharmaceutical, food, agrochemical, perfume, and cosmetics industries. As a result, chiral waste becomes an extremely important issue at present. Chiral compounds can be ecologically hazardous, due to their high biological activity, creating a global pollution problem. It is of note, that enantiomers have a different impact on living organisms making it extremely important to differentiate these stereoisomers, which is extremely a difficult and challenging task and usually requires highly specific and costly instruments. Yet, the stereoisomerism of contaminants is presently not considered in detail. For example, ~25% of all pesticides produced are chiral compounds and in many cases they are used as racemic mixtures, while about 70–80% of medical drugs are enantiopure molecules. In this context, the development of portable chemical sensors devices which are reliable, sensitive and rapid, capable of fast, simple and real-time in situ and on site analysis for sensing and discrimination of chiral molecules presents an attractive breakthrough target compared to existing standard instrumental methods.

Therefore, the aim of this Special Issue is to highlight and overview all aspects of chiral pollution on environment and corresponding detection by using modern analytical approaches. All types of papers, including comprehensive reviews on general environmental issues, mini reviews on specialized subjects, accounts of own research work, full experimental or theoretical papers, short communications, technical notes, comments, and others are welcome for consideration.

Prof. Dr. Victor Borovkov

Prof. Riina Aav

Prof. Roberto Paolesse

Guest Editors

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Keywords

chiral pollutants

environment

chirality

stereoisomerism

enantiomers

chirality sensor

sself-assembly

supramolecular systems